INTRODUCTION TO WATER POLLUTION TECHNOLOGY
- CIV 471
Professor Peter R. Jaffé
Topics and Approximate Number of Lectures:
Introduction -- (2)
Definitions of water pollution and water quality parameters;
water uses and demands; types of water bodies; hydrologic cycle; mass balance
calculations; reaction rates.
Nature and Sources of Pollution -- (3)
Characteristics of wastewater; point and non-point sources
of pollution; chemical, biological and physical properties of natural waters;
impact of pollutant inputs.
Wastewater Treatment -- (6)
Standards for effluent quality; unit processes; conventional
and advanced systems; effluent and sludge disposal alternatives; recycling
of treated effluents; field trip.
Wetlands -- (4)
Characteristics of wetlands, engineered
wetlands for waste treatment, wetlands to control non-point source pollution.
Water Quality Modeling -- (5)
Basic principles of water quality modeling; types of models
for surface runoff and receiving waters; BOD-DO dynamics in receiving waters.
Eutrophication -- (2)
Aquatic ecology; definition of trophic state; causes of eutrophication
in lakes, rivers, estuaries, oceans; corrective measures; standards for
prevention of eutrophication; stratification effects.